boy
by [Wise, Consuelo]
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In this hybrid of lyric poetry and essay, Consuelo Wise utilizes repetition, fragmentation, and syntax to construct a form that repeatedly falls apart. Breaks in lines and fragmented stanzas are followed by accumulative rushes, slashes, brackets, and words pushed together.
Throughout this book-length poem, Wise composes a meditation and an investigation into loss and identity. Moving between sound and image, aggression and subtlety, b o y pries open memories that resist understanding but also refuse to be forgotten. Wise peels back layers of mourning, considering how it can be experienced as a personal, inherited, environmental, social, and historical phenomenon. Throughout, the protagonist in b o y reenvisions ways to process a great loss, listening closely and searching for words while "the earth is shaking and the silence pressing down."
Product Details
- Omnidawn Brand
- Dec 18, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9781632431301 ISBN-13:
- 1632431300 ISBN-10:
- 136.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 9.5 in * 0.55 in * 7.25 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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